In-game XMB is barely a good start - where's Skill Matching?

This is a joke thread right?

I have never ever had fairly matched games on xbox live or psn, its always high skilled vs noobs and it never changes.

The most important feature of Live, and why I continue paying for it, is TrueSkill. It's how I find games with people of my skill level, and avoid being matched up against a bunch of rookies or MLG competitors. Without it, a weekend warrior type like myself is doomed to be blown out by the truly dedicated, who don't let silly things like paying the rent get in the way of their gaming time. I only manage to fit in a few hours of online time per month, and I don't feel like spending them getting annihilated by a hypercaffeinated 12-year-old while 2 guys who don't even know which way the flag is ineffectually try to get my back.

So, Sony fans, enjoy your in-game XMB (I'll be quite happy to finally get it) - it's a nice start, but nowhere near enough.

lowe0

U gotta be kidding me man, that thing is useless. I play guys on my level and still be owning them on xbox live in call of duty 4. People wonder why I am still on my first prestige and how do I get so many kills but they forget I use to be up there in top 5 in kills in PSN version of COD4. Like I said I only bought xbox live because my real friends only own an xbox 360 and so they kept asking me to come on live because everytime they came over when I use to play COD4 on PSN for so many hours they would see me rack up 40+ kills every game and I was playing hardcore team deathmatch. I stopped playing it for a while on my PS3 because none of my real friends were on PSN, of course I still made many new friends on PSN but they were people just randomly adding me and never played with them once. Now im on xbox live sometimes when I have time after work playing with some of my friends and the competition level on xbox live feels the same only difference is the new maps are still a learning proccess for me since I havent been playing much but I still rack up alot of kills.

Edit: Also on my PSN ID of COD4 I am a gold cross prestige and unlocked every golden gun on there. So to me it is a useless thing for me to do on xbox live because u do not benefit from prestige, it is just to show off and say u are suppose to be a high rank.

MOST decent games have their own matchmaking process seprate from TrueSkill. Basically its a tac on feature, but useless in the end. Oh and if you have a job making $25 bucks an hour why are you on a forum when you should be working?Duo75

Um, how do you know when he should be working? Does making $52,000 a year mean you should never stop working?

This is probably why MLG will never touch the PSN for competitions.

ReverseCycology

MLG playing on Playstation Network:

http://gamebattles.com/ps3/

You spend money on live to only get ina few hours of gaming in a month? :? What a ripCouth_

Halo 3 barely gives me "Skill Matchmaking." I go against people like 10x better than me each match.

Skill Matchmaking, I bet. :(

The Skill match up thing is really useful, I agree, but really its not too hard to just leave the game if you think you're going to get your ass kicked or if the guy you're playing has n00b stats...